Letter: Coalition of Reason's message misguided

Editor: The issue I have with the atheist sign is not the message, but the pretentious name of the organization that sponsors it: the North East Coalition of Reason. The name seems to imply that it's only their members who are reasonable and fair-minded, while the rest of us religious folk are mired in superstition and bigotry. Is it only the beliefs of atheists and agnostics that are derived through reason?

After all, wasn't it our very reasonable and theistic Founding Fathers, who, ironically, resided in a time historically known as the "Age of Reason," that laid the foundation for the freedoms that all of us (including atheists) now enjoy? In fact, it was one of them that wrote in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." If atheists aren't willing to thank God, they should at least thank our God-believing Founding Fathers they have the right to display their misguided message.

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This would be funny if it weren't so serious. I get the opportunity at least three times a week to make this same comment. Conservative, religious posters regularly invoke "The Founding Fathers" in any number of causes.
Today the "FF's" laid the foundation for what we enjoy today, and they did. No question................what a pourous foundation it was. And they did it in the "Age of Reason".....and they did.
They also declared that women were "property", not to be granted the same rights "all men" who were created "almost" equal.
Ownership of real estate was a prerequisite for voting rights.
White maleness was another prerequisite to enter the voting booth.
The myopia of the "Founding Fathers" has been set straight by reasonable people with subsequent constitutional amendments.
The one job left undone is to revise the Second Amendment so little kids in Jacksonville, or battered wives, don't get shot by "Unregulated Militia" !
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The bottom line is the non believer should have to carry the burden of proof. If believers are wrong, when they die then there is nothing they are just dead like everybody else. If non believers are wrong and they die and there is a heaven and hell, well.......

.....at the same time it takes faith to believe in evolution b/c there are so many holes in the theory that just cant be explained never the less proved. Therefor if i have to have faith in something i'll choose to have faith in God and not man.